It started to behave oddly and I thought it was going to crash. And although I've had a couple of hardware problems with this comp, excluding sleep and the battery dying it has only ever been switched off on a handful of occasions, and in that whole time, has never crashed once. (That's because Mac OS X runs on a flavour of Unix these days. And Unix is to computing what a JCB is to digging holes).
Anyway, I though my trusty comp was in the process of crashing. Oh well, I thought, it had to happen some time. But no! It was far far worse than that. The details are slightly boring so I'll skip them, but basically my comp had a total mindquake for no apparent reason. Complete meltdown. Needless to say I had a later night than I expected and I've spent a bit of time over the last few days sorting everything out.
I could have lost over a years worth of email, everything I've ever written that isn't posted here, hundreds of images of my work, all of the software based stuff I've built, lots and lots and lots of good web bookmarks, a picture of a man with a tattoo of an office chair on his arm and my Icy Hot Stuntaz sampler.
Lucky for me I took a backup. I've got to be honest, it's not something I do with great regularity but as fate would have it, I had backed a lot of stuff up last week. So I almost learned the golden rule of computing the hard way. Always back everything up. Always always always. Okay, I do now. Because that was a very close shave.
aaah... arm chair, I get it. Very clever.
In case you're wondering (and if having a big tattoo of 'a blue shape' on your arm qualifies you to judge this sort of thing) I'm pretty certain that this is real. (?!)
